QUANG NAM (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): More than 200 dancers and artists will stage an art performance: ‘The Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary Legendary Night’ in the central province’s Duy Xuyên District on Thursday (March 24) marking a significant event of the National Tourism Year – Quảng Nam 2022.
The province said the performance would begin at 4pm at the UnescoO-recognised world heritage site in Duy Phú Commune, 40km from Hoi An, featuring a series of cultural performances, arts and handcrafts demonstrations throughout the day.
Visitors will explore the old culture of Chăm people and the Vietnamese community by joining exhibitions and demonstrations of wood sculpture, weaving, terra-cotta, cuisine and the beauty of the Chăm tower complex.
The Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary – a Unesco-recognised world heritage site – has been well preserved since it was built thousands of years ago during the prosperous development of the Champa Kingdom between the 4th and 13th centuries.
French archaeologists and researchers found the Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary earlier in 1885. The first excavation and research on the Chăm towers began in 1898-99 by Louis Finot and Launet de Lajongquere.
The Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary is still a unique and mysterious archaeological site, and it remains a research centre for Chăm culture – a defunct civilisation in Asia, according to local archaeologists.
In celebrations of the opening of the National Tourism Year, the ancient town of Hoi An will host a balloon festival on Hoài River Square on March 25-26.
Meanwhile, a Balloon Day will be hosted by Danang City, marking the restart of international flight when Singapore Airlines and Thai Vietjet carry the first international tourists to Danang on March 27.
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